@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-03-16 13:28:31
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-14 13:53:00
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-18 03:43:01
First song is live!
Yaava Mohana Murali Kareyitu - ಯಾವ ಮೋಹನ ಮುರಳಿ ಕರೆಯಿತು
#Milana
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-17 08:08:06
Kinda related to #Gentoo, so cool" or "they stopped using it, so sad". And I'm like, "why should we care?"
Do they donate money to Gentoo? They don't. And if they did, it would probably come with obligations making this not worth it.
Do they contribute back? Rarely, and if they do, they are unreliable. They benefit more than we do. They just want to dump the packages they need, quickly duct taped together, so that we would maintain them going forward. Their employees rarely reveal that they're paid to do this, and if they do, it's not so they'd be held to higher standards, but to emphasize their importance: "you must placate us."
Well, sometimes they hire Gentoo developers. It's nice that these developers get some gratification for their work, especially if they're able to continue contributing on work time. But in the end, company priorities win. We are either left with loads of new packages with no maintainer and unclear significance, or a Google employee who appeared every once in a while to dump a bunch of ChromeOS patches and never bothered handling the fallout.
So, sorry, but I'd rather care for volunteers who want to make Gentoo better, than companies who see some profit incentive in it.
PS. I'm probably focusing too much on the negative aspects, and we likely had some positive interactions that are far less known and usually don't meet with such fanfare.
#FreeSoftware
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-11 17:11:07
America Won’t Be Easily Forgiven—Even After Trump Is Gone | The New Republic https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/11/america-wont-be-easily-forgiven
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-04-16 12:22:07
Just went through a code file and replaced "target" with "recipient" in a bunch of docs and variable names, because I had had two senses of "target" and because I want to encourage less-combat-focused thinking among potential devs (which at the moment and for the foreseeable future is just me). Zero changes to code functionality (unless I messed up) and took maybe 30 minutes. Got me thinking about the goal of software development and who would view that time as "wasted".
From a short-sighted "measure user-facing functionality" standpoint there was basically zero progress made. From a "cultivating-code-understanding-entities" perspective, there are both immediate and long-term gains. I got a chance to review the entire file at a high level which improves my understanding of things even if no changes had been made. The changes increase clarity of a lot of documentation, as well as variable naming clarity in code which deals with both senses of "target" which now has clear separation between variables that refer to targets and recipients. If there are any other devs in the future, this will help them a lot. Even if not, by increasing my own development efficacy, the expected values for project-gets-shipped and overall-project-impact just went up. I've also helped myself not introduce the same ambiguity in all my future projects, because I'll remember this time investment, and I've bent the ideological flavor of the protect towards neutral/beneficial interactions between "initiators and recipients" instead of hostile interactions between "initiators and targets".
Overall, well worth the time investment if we consider all the subtler benefits, and not just a very crude measure of user-facing behavior. (Secretly, this is also a post about LLMs.)
#programming
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-03-17 18:43:55
Israel carrying out ‘mass expulsion of Palestinians’ in West Bank, UN warns | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/17/israel-carrying-out-mass-expulsion-of-palesti…
@edintone@mastodon.green2026-02-14 19:34:49
I take this as Nature's cue to get planting. #Frogspawn on the #allotment pond and lots of it. So today in went some Broad Beans, it been far too wet in the UK to do this much sooner. #growyourown
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-03-16 18:58:50
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@lw may be unaware that I'm a former committer; I rarely mention this.
From an archived edition of one of my profiles:
https://tinyurl.com/grahamperrin-freshbs…
@smashtie@mas.to2026-04-17 19:17:36
#totp They cut the cheesy synth solo! But for heaven 17 so I forgive them.